The Paring Knife 

Believing that Nessa was killed by an Israeli-backed terrorist group the American government prepares to accept Palestine as a sovereign state and Julia Walsh accuses Palestinian ... See full summary »

Director:

Hugo Blick

Writer:

Hugo Blick

Stars:

Stephen Rea, Janet McTeer, Lachele Carl

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Stephen Rea	...	Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle
Janet McTeer	...	Dame Julia Walsh
Lachele Carl	...	Secretary of State
Eve Best	...	Monica Chatwin
Martin Hutson	...	Max Boorman
Igal Naor	...	Shlomo Zahary
Katherine Parkinson	...	Rachel Stein
Maggie Gyllenhaal	...	Nessa Stein
Oliver Bodur	...	Kasim Halabi
George Georgiou	...	Magdi Muraji
Paul Herzberg	...	Daniel Borgoraz
Lubna Azabal	...	Atika Halabi
Lois Ellington	...	Young Nessa Stein
Aidan Stephenson	...	Eli Stein
Nasser Memarzia	...	Zahid Al-Zahid

Storyline

Believing that Nessa was killed by an Israeli-backed terrorist group the American government prepares to accept Palestine as a sovereign state and Julia Walsh accuses Palestinian sympathizer Monica of helping to engineer this, using Nessa as a pawn. Nessa comes to in a house with Kasim and rings Shlomo to announce that she is alive. Acting on the call Hayden-Hoyle persuades Atika, who was aware of, and part of, the plot that she owes it to Nessa to rescue her, which she does, killing the father of Al-Zahid, who ordered her rape and her family's murders. Though mortally wounded Atika helps Nessa and Kasim escape to Israel and back to England, where they visit Rachel and her new-born baby.

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Plot Keywords:

politics | 

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Release Date:

18 September 2014 (USA)

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

62 min

Did You Know?

Goofs

As Nessa gets to her feet after surviving the explosion, we see that her slacks have a large hole exposing her right buttock. Later on she kicks up a fuss while she is forcibly returned to her room/cell. During the ruckus we see that her wardrobe malfunction has been corrected.

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